Leadership OS by Nik Kinley and Shlomo Ben-Hur - Preview

and capabilities in the world, but if they do not create the right OS for their team or business, they will not succeed. None of this should sound controversial or surprising. Yet amazingly, for the past 50 years, the leadership industry has more or less ignored these operating systems and has instead just focused on leaders’ core components. There is an endless array of models describing the skills, qualities and behaviours that leaders need, and whole libraries of research into which of these components are most able to drive performance. This has undoubtedly been helpful. Today, we have a solid understanding of the skills that leaders need. But in focusing solely on these inner qualities, only half of the leadership story has been told, and leaders have been given only half the information they need to succeed. And the bit that has been missed is the most critical part. This book is about that missing part of the story. It is not about the core capabilities you need to have, but about the operating systems you need to create. Based on over five years of research with thousands of leaders around the world, it describes what these systems are made of, explains why they are so important and reveals how they drive and enable performance. And it shows you how to identify the type of system you tend to create, and then optimise it to produce the best results.

WHY CORE COMPONENTS ARE NOT ENOUGH For many years, the leadership industry has followed a kind of ‘build-it-and-the- results-will-come’ approach. It has developed leadership models that say, ‘Be like this, do that’: universal rules that leaders can follow in every situation, anytime and

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